This female R&B group from Los Angeles, California, USA was formed in 1979 by and Bernadette Cooper (drums/vocals), Lorena Porter (vocals), Cheryl Cooley (guitar), Lynn Malsby (keyboards), Robbin Grider (keyboards) and Joyce Fenderella Irby (bass/vocals). They teamed up with new writing/production team Jimmy Jam And Terry Lewis on their debut for the Solar label, 1981s Girls Will Be Girls. This passable collection of modern R&B failed to make much of an impact, a fate that also befell the much-improved follow-up Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman. The group switched to the MCA imprint Constellation Records for their third album, Meeting In The Ladies Room, and scored their breakthrough US hit with the Top 3 single I Miss You. Further Top 20 hits followed with Man Size Love (featured in the movie Running Scared) and Id Still Say Yes, the latter co-written by Irby and emerging R&B producer/songwriter Babyface.

Cooper and Irby subsequently departed to launch solo careers, although both would subsequently find more success as writer/producers. A scaled down Klymaxx line-up featuring Porter, Cooley and Grider completed one further album for Constellation, 1990s weak The Maxx Is Back. Their late 90s comeback spawned the unsuccessful One Day, following which the group split up for a second time. Another reunion took place in 2003 when the group performed on the VH1 television series Bands Reunited.

Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.